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Eirini Zormpa

Data management and open science specialist with experience in research, teaching and project management. Driven and reliable with excellent communication skills.

Experience

Trainer on Research Data Management and Open Science

Delft University of Technology Library (remote)

Delft, NL

2021–now

  • Delivered training to PhD candidates, data stewards, and Principal Investigators from different disciplines on (FAIR) research data management, reproducible analysis (using R and git), and open science.
  • Coordinated the delivery of training courses for a national collaboration on research data management.
  • Participated in collaborative projects, e.g., with data stewards from different universities on improving practices around FAIR and reproducible code.
  • Established new collaborations, e.g. the Coding Confessions project about normalising failure in research software.
  • Chaired meetings, ensuring there was a clear agenda, fair participation, and comprehensive notes.
  • Worked on data wrangling and visualisation to evaluate participation in training offered by the library.
  • Became a certified Carpentries instructor.

PhD Candidate

Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

Nijmegen, NL

2016–2020

  • Planned and managed own PhD project and co-supervised intern project.
  • Designed and ran multi-phase experiments with human participants.
  • Analysed complex datasets using advanced statistical methods.
  • Used open research best practices (e.g. open data/code, FAIR principles).
  • Advocated for the adoption of open science practices on Nijmegen campus.
  • Peer reviewed publications for journals, e.g. Memory & Cognition and Journal of Open Source Software.

Education

University of Reading

MSc in Language Sciences (Awarded distinction)

Reading, UK

2014–2015

  • Conducted independent and collaborative research on bilingual adults.
  • Received the “Achieving Excellance” Bursary Award.

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

BA in English Language and Literature (1st Class grade)

Thessaloniki, GR

2009–2013

  • Conducted research project on the narratives of bilingual children.
  • Undertook Erasmus exchange at Duisburg-Essen University.

Community Organising Experience

Open Science Community Nijmegen

Co-founded local community advocating for open science. Event organiser, e.g. of a ReproducibiliTea journal club, and content creator for website and newsletter.

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2018–2020

Peer-reviewed Publications

Selected Presentations

Blog Posts

R-Ladies Nijmegen chapter

Co-founded local R-Ladies chapter with 300+ members, promoting gender diversity in the R community. See below for workshop examples.

N/A

2018–2020

Selected Teaching and Training Experience

Research data management 101

Delft University of Technology Graduate School

Delft (online)

2021-2022

Data Carpentry for Social Sciences

Self-organised by Delft, Leiden, and Rotterdam Universities

online

2021-2022

Essentials 4 Data Support

Research Data Netherlands (course materials)

online

2021-2022

Planning your data management

Bioinformatics for PIs, EMBL-EBI (slides)

Cambridge, UK (online)

Jun 2021

Open data & reproducibility: R Markdown, Dashboards, Binder

UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (workshop)

Birmingham, UK (online)

Jul 2020

Reproducible analyses in R

IMPRS Conference 2020 (workshop materials)

Nijmegen, NL (online)

Jun 2020

Towards reproducible science: Power analysis

R-Ladies Nijmegen (workshop materials)

Nijmegen, NL

Jun 2019

R Markdown

R-Ladies Nijmegen (workshop materials)

Nijmegen, NL

Oct 2018

Selected Event Organising Experience

Pint of Science NL

Three-day science communication event bringing science into pubs.

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2019–2020

Open Access Ambassador Conference

Two-day international conference on Open Access, connecting stakeholders from academia, the public sector, and industry.

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Dec 2019

IMPRS Introduction Days

Two-day event welcoming new graduate students. I facilitated a discussion on PhD life covering topics like work-life balance and mental health.

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Sep 2019